To be honest, my iPad has disappointed me in some ways. I was expecting a revolutionary device that would fundamentally change my life, upending my sense of how I get from here to there, of what’s what, and even of who I am. But now, now I think I’ve found the product I’ve been waiting for:
Yes, friends, it’s Perky Jerky. And lest you think it’s just caffeinated beef jerky — that would be pedestrian — please understand that it’s actually “the first performance-enhancing meat snack”. Take that, Steve Jobs.
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15 comments
July 30, 2010 at 4:21 pm
zunguzungu
There’s a good “that’s what she said” joke embedded somewhere in this post, but I can’t seem to dig it out. Probably for the best.
July 30, 2010 at 4:27 pm
ari
I travel the high road, zz, so I wouldn’t have a clue what you’re talking about.
July 30, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Jason B.
Ow. My . . . ow.
July 30, 2010 at 4:57 pm
JP Stormcrow
July 30, 2010 at 6:53 pm
Vance
zunguzungu, are you related to Nguzunguzu?
July 30, 2010 at 7:02 pm
Vance
Also, or contrariwise, I’m pretty happy with my iPad. It’s a nice combination of e-reader with normal computer functions somewhere on the scale from toy to real. For example, if the classical radio station plays a piece I like, I can easily download the score as a PDF and read along. Not everyone’s use-case, I suppose…
July 30, 2010 at 7:07 pm
zunguzungu
@Vance, nope. But zunguzungu has a fascinating set of etymologies, only some of which are made up, and none of which I was aware of when I chose it as a moniker. As usual, Wayne Marshall knows everything about such things.
July 31, 2010 at 6:34 am
shadowcook
I recently took my iPad on a research trip. Didn’t take my laptop. I transferred to my iPad the images I made of documents in the archives. In libraries, I took notes in Pages, thanks to the bluetooth keyboard I brought along. The GPS got me to the libraries and archives I visited, not to mention to the restaurants in the evening. I made reservations with the Open Table app. Wikihood was a fun way to visit the neighborhoods of the city I was in. Didn’t have to bring along books to read in the evening, because I had both iBooks and Kindle. iAnnotate also let me catch up on PDFs of articles I need to read. And I recorded voice memos with the Voice Memos app for something I’m writing. And none of the above involved Safari, which I used constantly to find opening hours, locations, and so forth. At home, I’ve grown dependant on ToDo and Chronicle (for my garden). I should say, I don’t have an iPhone. So, the iPad is working out really well for me.
July 31, 2010 at 8:06 am
JP Stormcrow
If your meat snack remains performance-enhanced for more than four hours call a venture capitalist.
July 31, 2010 at 11:15 am
BK
Why not just combine all three, the meat snack, energy drink, and iPad?
July 31, 2010 at 12:58 pm
kevin
I hear Jobs is already at work on the iTalian Sausage.
July 31, 2010 at 6:14 pm
nick
If only the iPad tasted better…
August 1, 2010 at 10:26 am
TF Smith
Jerky – with benzedrine on the side?
Sounds like something the War Department would have cooked up for WW II fliers…
August 1, 2010 at 12:29 pm
kevin
If only the iPad tasted better…
The iPad Thai isn’t bad. As long as you don’t have a peanut allergy.
August 2, 2010 at 7:09 am
Randy
Fans of Corner Gas will of course recall Kirk Berkley’s Turkey Jerky.